The Writer's Garden: How gardens inspired the world's great authors

See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book.

Discover the flower gardens, vegetable plots, landscapes, and writing hideaways of 30 great authors – from Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Orchard House’, where she wrote Little Women, and Agatha Christie at Greenway, to Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House and the Massachusetts home of Edith Wharton.

A Journey Through Gardens That Inspired Great Authors

• Fully illustrated with specially commissioned photography plus archive images.
• Spanning centuries and continents, this book explores the homes and gardens that inspired novelists, poets, and playwrights.
• Gain insight into how outdoor spaces influenced the lives and creative processes of beloved authors.

Writers and Their Gardens Featured in the Book:

• Jane Austen in Kent and Hampshire
• Agatha Christie in Devon
• Beatrix Potter in the Lake District
• Thomas Hardy in Dorset
• Walter Scott and Robert Burns in Scotland
• William Wordsworth in Cumbria
• Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling in Sussex
• Frances Hodgson Burnett in Kent
• Jack London in California
• Edward James in Mexico
• Jean Cocteau and George Sand in France
• Goethe in Germany

This deeply insightful book sheds new light on some of literature's greatest works, offers rare glimpses into the lives of these brilliant minds, and showcases in stunning full colour the gardens in which these writers spent their time.